[MPlayer-users] why can't mplayer deal with a simple mpeg movie (when Xine can)?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:23:22PM -0500, Compn wrote:
> > mplayer is playing the video TOO FAST! the video ends when the sound
> > track has barely reached 2/3 of its length.
> >
> > This is with version 1.0-pre3cvs20040404.
> >
> > On the same videos Xine is doing a fine job of playing them at the
> > correct speed.
> 
> sounds like an RTC issue... try as root. or allow mplayer/user to use /dev/rtc

No, sounds like his soundcard doesn't support the samplerate of the
movie but doesn't report the error... RTC is not required.

Rich